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...Many people are too prone to blame all financial evils upon bankers- either commercial or investment. Bankers have enough to atone for without being held responsible for orgies of gambling upon stock or commodity exchanges or for the rapacity of individuals who seek to gain inordinate financial profits by reckless speculation. I undertake to condone no improper practices, but do suggest that a proper sense of perspective is necessary...
...lesser measure is possible, Lord Amulree insisted, pointing to the Report finding that Newfoundland's Government "is in imminent danger of financial collapse due to reckless waste and extravagance...
There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians...
...swipes at Recoverers Dudley Field Malone and Herbert Bayard Swope for being "servitors" of Jimmy Walker, and at Governor Lehman, President Roosevelt's good friend, for failing to act on Seabury recommendations for city reform. Thus attacked, these men swung back at Seabury and Fusion. "A base and reckless slander!" cried Joe McKee at Judge Seabury's attack on Governor Lehman, whose
...present incident, Mr. Robert Choate, the Herald's managing editor, has again exhibited that reckless courage which is the badge of his clan. He realized full well, of course, that a very large portion of his readers would take unreasoning offense, charging that the Herald had ventured, without provocation, into a field about which it knew little. He must have known that others would suggest, unjustly, that he had hoped to please thereby the good people of Chelsea, Dorchester, and East Boston. But Mr. Choate stoically disregards arguments so patently prejudiced. He prints what he thinks. He deserves his reputation...